Rahul Rahul is the name Buddha gave to his son Chand Chand means "moon" in Sanskrit (राहुल चंद)

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Hi 🤝 I am Rahul, I am currently a grad student at Stanford🌲 and an intern at NVIDIA Research working on latent reasoning and async RL for Nemotron LLMs. Before this I worked as a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research with Yashoteja Prabhu & Manik Verma on Transformer Compression & Extreme Classification. My current interests are in RL+LLM and Robotics (You can have super intelligence in an API for 20$/month but it wouldn't meaningfully change the world unless you can give it a physical body). Currently, I am working at the Scaling Intelligence Lab at Stanford on LLMs and at the ILIAD group on robotics.

In the futurefuture_meme I look forward to getting replaced by AGI and work as a Wallace design protein farmerwallace_design.

In my previous life, I completed my undergrad in CS from BITS Pilani & worked at VAL (IISc) on Capsule Networks for my undergrad thesis. For more details, check my CV

Publications

Data Retrieval with Importance Weights for Few-Shot Imitation Learning
Amber Xie, Rahul Chand, Dorsa Sadigh, Joey Hejna
CoRL'25 | Conference on Robot Learning

Enhancing Tail Performance in Extreme Classifiers by Label Variance Reduction
Anirudh Buvanesh*, Rahul Chand*, Yashoteja Prabhu, Manish Gupta, Manik Verma (* = Equal Contribution)
ICLR'24 | International Conference on Learning Representations

DSFormer: Effective Compression of Text-Transformers by Dense-Sparse Weight Factorization
Rahul Chand, Yashoteja Prabhu, Pratyush Kumar

CapsFlow: Optical Flow Estimation with Capsule Networks
Rahul Chand, Rajat Arora, Ram Prabhakar Venkatesh Babu

Open Source

gpu_poor (1300+ stars)
Tool to check vRAM & token/s requirement for any LLM for consumer hardware. It supports ggml, HuggingFace, bitsandbytes, QLoRA & gradient checkpointing. Used over 120k+ times by 20k+ users.

llama2.c-for-dummies (200+ stars)
Starter tutorial for inference with LLaMA in C

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